Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Wang Chen had arrived at the Dikui Realm Gate for five days and was gradually adapting to the unique environment here.

The Realm Gates under the jurisdiction of the Nine States Immortal Alliance totaled eighty-six, divided according to Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, and Yellow. The place where Wang Chen was assigned to guard belonged to the Earth-tier Realm Gate, with an area of about five thousand miles in circumference.

The Realm Gate was an independent domain apart from the Haotian Realm, bordering on the void, similar to a solitary island in the ocean.

The Dikui Realm Gate where Wang Chen was stationed had a large Immortal City and five medium to small Guard Cities, which were distributed at the frontier near the void to prevent and resist the invasion of Outsider Heavenly Demons.

The Realm Gate was equivalent to a gigantic defensive fortress, an inevitable path for Outsider Heavenly Demons to invade the Haotian Realm. Therefore, for hundreds and thousands of years, the war between humans and Heavenly Demons has never truly ceased.

Not before, and not in the future!

The main city of the Dikui Realm had the highest defense level, with a Divine Transformation True Monarch from the Nine States Immortal Alliance garrisoned, along with an elite force of the Immortal Alliance's Taoist Soldiers, making it very formidable.

However, the five Guard Cities were much inferior, and Wang Chen, as an external Guest Elder, was assigned to one of them called Anyi Guard City to assist the stationed Nascent Soul of the Immortal Alliance in resisting the Heavenly Demons.

Since Wang Chen was also a Nascent Soul True Immortal, upon his arrival, he was allocated a Cave Mansion in the center of Anyi City as his residence, with relatively decent welfare benefits.

It's just that the environment of the Realm Gate was too harsh.

Within Anyi City, it was relatively better, equipped with defensive and spirit-gathering arrays, but the spiritual energy condition was nowhere near that of Nine States City, and even ordinary Immortal Cities were much stronger than it.

The spiritual energy in Wang Chen's Cave Mansion was not even enough to meet his daily cultivation needs!

Fortunately, the Immortal Alliance would provide Origin Spirit Pills regularly.

The Origin Spirit Pill belonged to the fourth-tier pills, consuming one pill daily could barely meet the cultivation needs of a primary tier Nascent Soul.

For a high-order Nascent Soul like Wang Chen, two or three pills were needed per day!

However, medicine is one-third toxic; even though the quality of the Origin Spirit Pills refined by the Immortal Alliance was excellent, taking pills every day would still accumulate pill toxins.

It was not beneficial for long-term cultivation.

Therefore, he did not consume any of the Origin Spirit Pills distributed by the Immortal Gates, giving most of them to Bai Susu, keeping only a few for emergencies.

After Bai Susu followed Wang Chen to Anyi City, she set up a small array in the Cave Mansion and asked Wang Chen for a hundred Upper Spirit Stones before falling into deep sleep.

She had her plans and needed no worry from Wang Chen.

Once Wang Chen became familiar with the environment of Anyi City, he left the Guard City on the sixth day, stepping into the void for the first time.

Hunting Outsider Heavenly Demons.

The void was boundless, vast, and immeasurable. From ancient times till now, no one knew exactly how big it was. There were once Power Men who tried to explore the truth of the void, but they vanished without a trace.

Everyone knew that the void contained endless wealth, but it also held unpredictable and great dangers.

For human cultivators, the greatest threat was none other than the Outsider Heavenly Demons!

Heavenly Demons were bizarre and demonic fiends born from the depths of the void, possessing countless types with vastly different abilities.

The most powerful Heavenly Demons even had the strength to destroy a world!

Although the Realm Gate bordered the void, it was also within the protection range of the Haotian consciousness. Therefore, the more powerful the Outsider Heavenly Demons, the more they were suppressed upon entering the domain.

The Haotian Realm was a great world, with a world consciousness strong enough to safeguard the billions of beings within the domain.

Thus, the Outsider Heavenly Demons harassing the Realm Gate mainly belonged to the second, third, and fourth tiers, with occasional appearances of a few fifth-tier demons.

A fifth-tier Heavenly Demon required a Divine Transformation True Monarch to handle!

Below the fifth tier was where Wang Chen's duties lay.

Sitting in the Magical Treasure Flying Ship, Wang Chen carefully perused the jade booklet in his hand, "The Catalogue of Void Heavenly Demons".

This was one of the materials distributed by the Immortal Alliance to the cultivators guarding the Realm Gate, recording thirty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty types of Heavenly Demon creatures, among which over a thousand were the most common.

In fact, Heavenly Demons transformed into countless variations, and what the jade booklet recorded was only a tiny fraction.

Yet it was a very precious and important document!

As Wang Chen was new, he did not have experience in hunting Outsider Heavenly Demons, nor had he joined any teams.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry to find any Outsider Heavenly Demons to attack. Instead, he piloted the flying ship around the Dikui Realm Gate, also visiting the other four Guard Cities.

Running such an errand took Wang Chen several days.

However, recently, the situation at the Dikui Realm Gate was quite peaceful, with no large-scale invasion of Heavenly Demons.

This gave Wang Chen sufficient time to prepare, allowing him to slightly venture into the void to understand the surrounding environment.

The void was not entirely empty; especially near the Haotian Realm, it was scattered with many meteoroids and fragmentary lands, the large ones spanning several hundred miles, the small ones only three to five miles, serving as habitats for Outsider Heavenly Demons or other void life forms.

These meteoroids and fragmentary lands were naturally very dangerous.

But they also contained precious wealth!

It was said that some meteoroids were entirely composed of fine gold, of incalculable value. Some fragmentary lands carried supreme spirit stones evolved from the time of creation and other heavenly treasures.

However, Wang Chen was not interested in these.

The reason was simple: if the wealth in the void was easily obtainable, it would have long been plundered to exhaustion.

It wouldn't be his turn to pick up the leftovers now!

Even if there were, they must certainly be hidden in the extremely dangerous depths of the void, where even Integration True Venerables and Mahayana Saints dared not venture lightly.

Of course, sometimes meteoroids and fragmentary lands originally hidden in the depths of the void fly near the Realm Gate.

Then it would depend on one's personal luck.

It had to be said, Du Jiuniang had arranged a very good place for Wang Chen.

The Dikui Realm Gate was quite safe, yet it also offered many opportunities. As for gaining enough merits, that depended on Wang Chen's own ability and luck.

After a big circle, he returned to Anyi Guard City.

Unexpectedly, a visitor arrived that very afternoon.

"Wandering Martial Artist Xiong Liangpeng, greetings, fellow Daoist."

The visitor was an old cultivator with the appearance of a celestial being, a childlike face, and crane-like hair, showing a cultivation realm at the third layer of Nascent Soul.

Wang Chen invited him into the Cave Mansion to sit.

Through a conversation, he learned that this old cultivator was his neighbor, also a Nascent Soul Guest Elder of the Nine States Immortal Gates, and had been stationed in the Dikui Realm for a full cycle of sixty years.

To this true senior, Wang Chen maintained ample respect and then asked, "Senior Xiong, may I ask why you sought me out?"

As the saying goes, one does not visit the temple of the three treasures without a reason. The other party did not seem to be here just for a casual chat.

Xiong Liangpeng stroked his snow-white long beard and sighed, "To be honest with you, fellow Daoist, I have little longevity left, with no hope of breakthrough, and came to the Dikui Realm for the sake of my descendants..."

This old cultivator's life was nearing its end, and even with life-extending treasures, he could not sustain himself for a hundred years.

So he came to the Dikui Realm to accumulate some resources for his descendants.

Such cultivators, especially loose cultivators, were as common as could be in the Haotian Realm.

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First chapter presented.